Overseas Passenger Terminal

Name Overseas Passenger Terminal
Client NSW Department of Public Works
Country Gadigal
Location Circular Quay, NSW
Year 1987

Peter Tonkin’s competition-winning design for the Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay, undertaken with Lawrence Nield + Partners, transformed the existing obsolete building into a major urban design focus at Sydney’s ‘front door’.

The project included optimising the building form to allow the removal of the southern portion to create a new waterfront square for the city. Extensive concrete cladding was removed to expose the dramatic steel frame and allow Harbour views from the surrounding streets.

Awards

1988, RAIA Merit Award, Category 1.
1988, RAIA Lloyd Rees Urban Design Award.
1983, First Prize and Commission.

Team

Peter Tonkin.

Consultants

Lawrence Neild and Partners, NSW Department of Public Works.

Previous Project:
Vietnam War Memorial

Overseas Passenger Terminal

The project included optimising the building form to allow the removal of the southern portion to create a new waterfront square for the city. Extensive concrete cladding was removed to expose the dramatic steel frame and allow Harbour views from the surrounding streets.

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TZG acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, on whose land we work and pay our respects to Elders past, present and future. We are committed to a just, equitable and reconciled Australia and support the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Always was, always will be.